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Daily Herdld www.daiiyherald.com NAPERVILLE LISLE NEWS WHEN YOU WAIVT IT, DAILY. Wednesday, September 1, 1999 03 Loaves and Fishes back in business after move BY SUSAN STEVENS Daily Herald Staff Writer Volunteer David Thompson packs bags of groceries Tuesday at the Loaves and Fishes food pantry's new warehouse. The new site, 556 W. Fifth has a more centrally located packing area, a bigger refrigerator and more room for customers. Daily Herald Shenkin After moving an estimated 60,000 pounds of food over the weekend, Loaves and Fishes volunteers on Tuesday started giving it away again.

The Naperville food pantry opened in its new location, a few doors down from its previous warehouse on Fifth Avenue behind Naperville North High School. The new site is 4,000 square feet, which is 1,000 square feet larger than the old one. The extra space will allow the pantry to serve more needy families and provide them with better-balanced meals. Over the weekend, dozens of volunteers converged on the pantry to help move groceries, equipment and shelves. "I had people from 8 years old to 80 working together," said administrative assistant Cindy Castillo.

"It was wonderful." Friday night, a group of men from United Methodist Church assembled shelves in the new warehouse. On Saturday and Sunday, a combined 150 volunteers helped with the move. Some of the workers came with Boy Scout Michael Territo, 16, who organized a work crew as an Eagle Scout project. Territo recruited roughly 20 people to work Friday, Saturday and Sunday, putting in a cumulative 275 hours, he said. "I spent five hours and 15 minutes last week just talking to people to get them to come," Territo said.

"It was definitely harder than I thought. I thought it would be that I could call everyone in an hour and set it up." Executive Director ICaty Klepper said volunteers also came from church groups, the pantry's regular staff of volunteers and people who read about the move in the newspaper. The food pantry's new neighbor used his forklift to ferry pallets of boxes to the new warehouse. "Naperville is a very generous town," Klepper said. "They're generous in time, they're generous in money, they're generous in food." The signs are already there.

On a top shelf are stacked neat rows of boxes of light bulbs a new addition, donated by Phillips. In the Quick hits from NapervWe and Lisle Lisle schedules free September brush pickups Lisle will begin offering free brush pickup this month for village homeowners. The schedule begins the week of Sept. 13 in areas north of Ogden Avenue and continues the week of Sept. 20 between Ogden and Maple avenues and the week of Sept.

27 south of Maple. Brush must be in the parkway by 7 a.m. on the Monday of the scheduled pickup week. Once crews pass through a neighborhood, they will not return until the next scheduled collection in April 2000. Homeowners must adhere to these guidelines: Items cannot exceed 8 inches in diameter or 8 feet in length.

Materials must be adjacent to the street without blocking ditches, swales or sidewalks. Cut ends must face the street. Brush should not be bundled with twine, rope or any other materials. Vines, rootballs, grass, leaves, railroad ties and timbers will not be accepted. 'An Oral History Sampler' premieres this week on NCTV "An Oral History Sampler" will air several times on Saturday and Sunday on Naperville Community Television Channel 17.

The half-hour program features vignettes of interviews with Tom Drendel, Pauline Bianucci, Don Wehrli, Helen Eichelberger, Chet Rybecki, Larry Gregory and Bill Young. Selected visual histories of the original Pre-Emption House and corn picking with Paul Miller also are featured. The show will air at 9 a.m., 2 and 7 p.m., midnight and 5 a.m. each day. The program will highlight the value of oral and visual history.

NCTV is starting to develop an archive of Naperville's 20th century people, places and events through a collection of interviews and images. yiewers also will be invited to attend a fundraiser, "The Motherlode," at 8 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Little Theatre of Naperville Central High School. "The Motherlode" is a video featuring seven women presenting intensely personal tributes to their mothers.

Tickets for "The Motherlode" are $20 and can be purchased at Anderson's Bookshop in downtown Naperville, Naper Settlement Museum Village and NCTV. Tickets are tax-deductible. For information, call NCTV at (630) 355-2124. Three Naperville-area residents named to NCO board of directors Three Naperville-area residents Steve Chirico, Charles Mesigh and Sharon Wail have been named to the NCO Youth Family Services board of directors. Chirico, a Naperville resident since 1961, owns and operates The Great Western Flooring Company with his wife, Francis.

Chirico attended Naperville Central High School. Mesigh, a 14-year Naperville resident, owns MDC Companies. He also is a member of the Sunrise Rotary Club and is a lifetime member of NaperviHe VFW Post 3873. Wall, a principal in NaperviHe Unit District 203, lived in the city for 23 years before moving to Aurora. She was named'one of the DuPage County YWCA's Outstanding Women Leaders in 1996.

NCO provides individual and family counseling along with prevention and early intervention programs. The 28-year-old agency also oversees the Cornerstone Group Home that provides shelter for boys from surrounding communities. Naperville A fire that started in a pile of debris in a back yard about 12:50 p.m. Monday caused $2,000 damage to the back wall and basement of a home under construction at 2615 Whitechurch Lane, authorities said. Twelve firefighters had the fire under control in about 10 minutes.

Investigators have not detennined what caused the fire. Painters, including Javier Granda, put the final touches on the exterior of a new stadium at North Central College. The first game the new facility is the season opener Sept. 11. Dai i er a Home field advantages New stately stadium puts NCC among the Division III elite BY CHRISTIE HART Daily Herald Staff Writer If Cardinal football fans haven't visited North Central College since the final whistle last season, they aren't going to recognize the home field by this year's kickoff.

The weathered wooden bleachers that held fans for about 25 years have been yanked from the sidelines. In their place is a soaring, stately stadium still developing, but nearly ready for the Cardinals' first home game Sept. 11 against the Benedictine University Eagles. "It was really hard, even for us, to picture what this building would be like," said Walter Johnson, the Naperville college's athletic director. "Even we were in awe when it started to come together." While North Central's old bleachers had the look and feel of a big high school stadium, the new stadium The new stadium stands four stories tall and will house offices and meeting rooms as well as providing 5,000 seats for outdoor events.

Here, Jamie Banfaury smooths a cement walkway at the north end of the stadium. Daily Herald Shenkin makes Kroehler Field one of the premier football-track-soccer facilities among Division III schools, Johnson said. The stadium provides seating for 5,000 fans, offers two concession See NCC on Page 2 back of the warehouse is a refrigerator twice the size of the old one. Klepper has definite plans for the extra space. "We're looking for a source of milk, eggs and butter," Klepper said.

"We had never been able to give that out, but now we have room for it. By Saturday, we'll have our freezers running so we can give out meat again." While the pantry is well-stocked with canned soup, other shelves are empty. The pantry needs sandwich bags, cleaning supplies and other items. "Our biggest needs right now are school supplies and personal items like deodorant, shaving cream, razors, because you can't buy those with food stamps," Klepper said. Sentencing set for today in Naperville teen's death BY STACY ST.

CUAIR Daily Herald Staff Writer A Knox County judge will decide the fate today of the man who admits to killing a Naperville teen in 1998. Clyde Best, 19, will be sentenced this morning for the murder of Andrea Racibozyns- ki. He faces anywhere from 20 years to life in prison. Knox County State's Attorney Paul Mangieri is expected to ask for life in prison without parole. Racibozynski, a 1997 Naperville Central graduate, was a freshman at Knox College at the time of the murder.

She worked at the campus radio station and performed with the Andrea college's modern Racibozynski dance troupe. Best, a Las Vegas resident, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to one count of first-degree murder in June. The plea is essentially the same as a straight guilty admission. Best's defense attorneys are expected to detail his mental instability during today's sentencing hearing. According to court documents, Best suffers from schizophrenia and is haunted by an imaginary figure named DuPree.

He also attempted suicide while in the Knox County jail, officials said. After being found fit for trial in Best fired his lawyers, saying they were "machine-heads" controlled by DuPree. Circuit Court Judge James Stewart allowed the 19-year-old to represent himself, but changed his ruling three days later when Best refused to speak in court. His original lawyers were reinstated, and Best offered to plead guilty. According to court records, Best met up with Racibozynski on the college quadrangle'while party hopping in the early hours See MURDER on Page 2 ihing touches under wraps ainium Wall unveiling BY RAY MINOR Daily Herald Staff Writer A piece of the future will be unveiled Friday when organizers rip the sheet away from Naperville's Millennium Wall.

The names of about 800 people are being installed beginning today on the massive rock wall behind the Riverwalk amphitheater. Leaders of Naperville's Celebration 2000 committee will unveil the wall with its first batch of names at 6:30 p.m. at a ceremony at Eagle Street and Jackson Avenue. Actually, the names are on plaques being added to the brick wall already in place behind the amphitheater, said Mary Ellingson, co-chairwoman of the group planning a three-day party marking the end of the century. "They're putting as many as they can get up before we unveil it," Ellingson said.

"Then they will pull the sheet off and show everyone what it looks like." Organizers eventually hope that 2,000 individuals, businesses or families will buy space on the wall by the deadline in four months. So far, nearly 1,050 plaques have been sold, Ellingson said. So many people have signed up so fast, organizers made the wall bigger to fit them all on. "It's going to be quite exciting," she said. Crowds bolstered by this weekend's Last Fling festival are expected to be on hand for the ceremony.

Names can be immortalized in bronze for as little as $100, with donors paying up to $2,500 to have their names on a plaque. Money raised from the plaques will help pay for the celebration, which will include parades, dances, concerts, dinners and fireworks. The plaques are being installed by workers from Artistic Pavers, the company that installed the ancient, labyrinth Artistic Pavers employee Cecelio Puga checks the fit of a practice plaque Tuesday at the new Millennium Wall on Naperville's Riverwalk. Celebration 2000 organizers will unveil the wall with about 800 plaques y. Daily Homld Phola'Horb Shonkin design on the amphitheater floor last year.

After the first round of plaques are installed on the wall, additional ones will be added in groups of about 100 as they are etched. A bronze marker at the center of the wall will help tie together both aspects of the amphitheater and explain its themes..